Siavash Rokhsari

[ 1 ] - An Investigation into Metadiscourse Elements Used by Native vs. Non-native University Students across Genders

The present study has aimed at finding out whether or not students’ language background and gender bring about a distinction between the frequency and types of metadiscourse elements occurring in their papers. To this end, a dataset of 40 student papers in four series written by native male, nonnative male, native female, and nonnative female writers was analyzed quantitatively and qualitativel...